Empty Bubbles / Blank Text messages

[bigbmc26]

I was having the same problem. Did some online research and found this solution. I tried it this morning and it works!

"I searched online trying to figure out a setting or something, but no luck. I started just toggling message settings and found two toggles which, for whatever reason, caused the messages to stay in the group, not send blank messages, and everything to work properly.

If you're having the messaging issue above try this (it worked for both Windows Phones):

Go to the default messaging app
Tap More (...) and tap Settings
And turn on "MMS delivery confirmation" and "Send MMS acknowledgement"
After I did that, all seems to work like it should, messages stay in the group, no one misses the convo, no blanks, all good. The only slight annoyance is you will be sent confirmations from your Mobile Operator in a text saying everyone who received your message."

Good find, worked for me also.

 

[SeeVuPlay]

Worked for me too

 

[dawindbag]

I have been talking to T-Mobile about this issue and they have a open known issue for thus problem. The bug ID is 332-91 if you want to call T-Mobile to complain and get your account added to the list to drive up the priority on this.

 

[bigbmc26]

I'm up and running again. It looks like the issue has been corrected.

 

[talkingtoaj]

My wife was having this problem. Her phone just occasionally would send people a blank text bubble, but most of the time it was fine.

We scoured the internet for a solution, but while lots of people have the same problem, there was no good solutions out there. People with different phone companies and different phone brands.

In the end, I worked out that it only happened for texts she sends which are 156 characters long. Usually an SMS is just 152 characters long. If you send a longer one, on older phones it splits it up, but new smart phones paste them together so you don't notice. However, they send some kind of code I think to let the phones know a follow-up Part 2 is coming. That means you don't get the full 152 characters. I think by a message being 156 it sort of can confuse a phone to where to cut it off.

Solution? I'm not sure - but we turned on a setting that lets my wife see how long her message is, and if its 156, she knows now to add an extra character or two...

Hope that helps!